Hey y'all
Bought a house from the 60s in Hitachi city. Been waiting a month for andline to come out and hook up wifi. Today, people from NTT came out to check the line to the house and, lo and behold, there's no line running to the house yet. (thought they'd already know that from their records of the area)
So they need another month or two to draw up blue blueprints to run the line from the street to the house (there's a bit of a setback). And they've gotta speak to our neighbours in the process because its path is over their property(s).
Is all this worth what will be a 3 month wait? Should I just resort to satellite like StarLink or some other "air wifi" solution?
My contract with andline is ¥4,600/month.
by SteeltownJack
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Hello there, sorry to hear about your struggling to get the WiFi @Hitachi, I like the city, bcz I lived there for 9yrs, well check this Tokyo cheapo website, you may take a pocket wifi rental option for about 2-3months around 5-7k/m. I believe that’s option I can suggest
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This is a pretty typical, if not fast timeline for NTT for this kind of thing. Expect delays.
My partner and I were looking at a place in the mountains and were told it’d be two months to two years for NTT to run the wire. Ended up not buying the place.
Same problem for me but in a 20 year old building. I’m using docomo 5g hub and it’s not too bad for casual gaming and work.
When I called NTT to move my fiber from my old house to this place, I told them there was no fiber to the house at that time. They came out and had a look within a few days, pretty sure it was less than a month from them looking for how they would route it to the house (luckily I had an old pole from the copper telephone era they could use to cross my property) to actually installing the internet. They were pretty good about scheduling things too. While there might have been a wait, it couldn’t have been more than a month and a half total.
Ask the ISP if they will provide a temporary 4G/5G solution for you. Not ideal but better than nothing and paying for one yourself.
Yeh I have no idea why there are seemingly no records and every install requires an inspection and often a new fibre. I’ve got 2 wires already coming into my house but had to have a 3rd for IIJ fibre.
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